Cranford is a story set in a small English town in the mid 19th century. This book is about the old ladies of Cranford’s lives. In Cranford you can only make visits between the hours of 12 and 3. Sometimes you could have evening parties, but the host could only offer bread and butter, because people in Cranford thought it was vulgar to give anything expensive to eat or drink at evening parties.
Of course the story is eventful, there were arguments about books, some friends pass away by accident, some couples suddenly get married. Their stories were tragic and also moving.
This is light reading, and it’s enjoyable.
2009年9月21日 星期一
An amazing achievement
One of the things that I think has made a difference to people’s lives is having a mobile phone. Not just for communication. Before you go to bed you set your alarm on the mobile phone, except making phone calls and sending messages, during the day you could use the phone for taking photos and video, listening to the radio, checking E-mail, or recording sounds.
Many people think it has become essential to their lives, particularly Taiwanese. But I don’t like it, because it can interupt your peace and privacy anytime and anywhere.
Many people think it has become essential to their lives, particularly Taiwanese. But I don’t like it, because it can interupt your peace and privacy anytime and anywhere.
Role model
In 2007, Xue Deray started to plan his bike trip from Bejing to Paris, through 7 countries along the Silk Road. He wanted to ride his bike to remind people about global warming.
He planned to raise 100 thousand NT dollars for his trip. He thought it would take 1 month or more to get enough money but in fact, he raised 100 thousand NT dollars in under a week and a bike, laptop, GPS etcetera. In total he had 130 thousand dollars, so he gave 30 thousand to charity.
His trip took him 6 months covering 15,000KM. He started from Beijing, took the Silk Road to WuLuMuQi (Urumqi), entered Kazakhstan and then passed through Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Belgium, finally arriving in Paris.
When he finished his trip, he wanted to have a perfect ending, so he rode around Taiwan.
Now he is back in his ordinary engineer’s life, but has already started planning his next adventure.
Xue Deray has provided an good role model for young people. He showed great stamina on his long trip, coped with many problems on the road such as visas, terrible weather, finding places to stay, safety and maintain his bike. He seems to have no fear of danger. I think this is what we need - to be brave, step out of our ordinary lives to see those of the other peoples of the world.
He planned to raise 100 thousand NT dollars for his trip. He thought it would take 1 month or more to get enough money but in fact, he raised 100 thousand NT dollars in under a week and a bike, laptop, GPS etcetera. In total he had 130 thousand dollars, so he gave 30 thousand to charity.
His trip took him 6 months covering 15,000KM. He started from Beijing, took the Silk Road to WuLuMuQi (Urumqi), entered Kazakhstan and then passed through Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Belgium, finally arriving in Paris.
When he finished his trip, he wanted to have a perfect ending, so he rode around Taiwan.
Now he is back in his ordinary engineer’s life, but has already started planning his next adventure.
Xue Deray has provided an good role model for young people. He showed great stamina on his long trip, coped with many problems on the road such as visas, terrible weather, finding places to stay, safety and maintain his bike. He seems to have no fear of danger. I think this is what we need - to be brave, step out of our ordinary lives to see those of the other peoples of the world.
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